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I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

I think it's important to vote.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

The French have got taste.

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.

I don't follow politics much.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

It's better to look important than sexy.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people

I can't think without my glasses.

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

The sexiest people are thinkers.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I am in my own head most of the time.

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Save the rainforest for your loved ones

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

The best fashion accessory is a book.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

Real art has been ... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

There is so much that people take for granted.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.